A trip to the convenience store this morning, a few provisions that we are getting low on. I should have made a note on the shopping list but my wife will only know that I forgot if she reads this post. There are any number of convenience stores open at six am, our cupboard was restocked before the lady awoke. Treating her to breakfast in bed rewarded me with a smile as bright as the morning sunrise.
Finished my own breakfast, showered, shaved, dressed and had the car out of the garage, all in under forty minutes. We were off to Salisbury today. Salisbury is a medieval cathedral city in the southern English county of Wiltshire. It’s 9 miles south of the iconic prehistoric stone circle at Stonehenge, which stands on the grassland of Salisbury Plain.
The city’s ornate 13th-century cathedral has a spire that's a couple of feet over 400 foot high. It has a working, 14th-century clock, and an original copy of the Magna Carta, known as the Great Charter, a key document from 1215 A.D. Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.
We were there to visit
Franklins.
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It's my wife's favourite store. The lady needs notions, that's a collective noun in dressmaking terms, meaning needles thread and the myriad of things that dressmakers need. I dropped her off at the shop and then went to park the car. Don't you just hate those convoluted, pay at the machine, contraptions? They are never easy to understand, a degree in quantum physics might help, but for your's truly it's the profanities that get me through once more.
When we finally got out of Franklins I took her for coffee and some fondant fancy. Whilst enjoying our hot drink she showed me the pattern that she had bought, along with all the other odds and ends. Then she told me the price of said pattern.
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£18:50 What! I nearly choked on my coffee. That's about $22:40 in Uncle Sam's Shekels. Ah well as the lady contributes fifty percent of our monthly income who am I to argue. We arrived home as darkness fell. The cottage pie from yesterday was on the menu again. It's been a busy day.
Life is never boring here.
